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In reply to the discussion: Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals; 20-100k at least [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)I know some don't want people to have rights and they should only be held by those in government and the wealthy.
But others of us see rights and choice as core issues.
I have noted many times that ninety-nine+ percent of gun owners don't cause problems. More and more laws won't fix the problem because the problem rotates around a small minority of our population.
Your solutions seem to center around more laws for people who are already obeying laws and making more criminals. We have laws about shooting people, threatening them, using guns in crimes in general, and so on. The people ignoring all of those really aren't going to be affected by more laws at this point.
But then, some people don't want to get to the root of the problem. They want to punish everyone else who does not make the same choices they are in life.
Take rights from the citizens and hand them over to other citizens who happen to have a job working for the government (or allowing a select few to have guns that the wealthy can afford to hire to protect them).
Yeah, sorry, that is not my idea of freedom or being progressive.